Title:

Lightweight Carbon Nanotube Buckypaper Material for Multifunctional Applications

Speaker:

Mr. Chuck Zhang

Affiliation:

H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering

When:

Monday, January 28, 2013 at 12:00:00 PM   Add to Calendar

Where:

MRDC Building, Room 114

Host:

Tina
Guldberg

Abstract

Manufacturing of lightweight, multifunctional composites is a fast-growing industry of enormous importance. Research and advancements have resulted in innovative uses of composites in aerospace, auto, marine, space and sporting goods industries. Recent discovery and insertion of nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes, further expand capabilities/potential of composites for multifunctional applications. This seminar will present some recent development on buckypaper, a thin carbon nanotube membrane material. The presentation will focus on the manufacturing and multifunctional applications of buckypaper.

Biography

Dr. Chuck Zhang is Professor at H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering and an affiliated faculty member at the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute. Dr. Zhang’s research interests include modeling & simulation based design of composite and nanocomposite materials and their manufacturing processes, scalable nanomanufacturing, and multifunctional materials development. His research projects have been sponsored by a number of organizations including National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), as well as industrial companies such as ATK, Cummins, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, and Siemens Power Generation. Dr. Zhang has published over 120 refereed journal articles and 170 conference papers.